The simpler life...

250 left til 10feb. gosh. i'm so not gonna survive... blame it on the past few days. even ordering food almost every mounting day. not even saving when cooped up in that cave.

and the yr gets better. games day was nice, albeit tiring. then had dinner with shaun after that. hanging out with him is sure one of the quickest way to burn your pockets man. was thinking of cwp then he suggested king albert park. well, he pleaded so i agreed. then the rain came while waiting for him haha. and we went pizza hut in the end. and hearing the waiter repeat our orders, the couple delight meal or sth just sounds so wrong haha. but oh well. it was nice catching up. been some time since we hung out.. not the usual light hearted banter and talk bout football and whatnot. but quite interesting some of the things he said. shared sth i haven't talked about to others before. haha. so broke i could only give up 10 bucks then and he had to pay the rest

and then the bomb. and then sunday. the most incredible, fabulous, fantastic and overwhelming fun i've had in a while. a long while. lunch was at mad jack's. (mcjack's will sound so much nicer haha)... was quite good. guess i put too much expectation on it or it'd have been nicer. but a nice lunch. ok.. 15 gone. oh. before that while waiting for eric, terence was buying jeans at NTUC. yup. NTUC. like wth. haha. he and his cheapskate antics. i wonder sometimes if he does all those just to display that image or he is really into those haha...

after some deliberation on where to go it's lan again. i guess i kinda expected it. not that i was dreading it. ever since we decided no dota and played some random custom game it's been quite fun. tower defence was nice. but too buggy. can't complete again. and sad. didn't do as well as last week. then we tried the hero survival thingy again. for once i wasn't that clueless (at least during the second game. the first one was still quite bad). we completed it heh. nice.

too bad terence had to leave after that again. had dinner at the yellow table coffee shop. haha. guess we went there only for nostalgia sake. we normally have western there but don't think anyone was for it since we just had steak and whatnot at mad jack's. in the end we all just took the risk, ordered the ban mian. it was surprisingly nice for sth non-qiu lian. ash was raving bout his dry u mian, the first time i've seen him so enthu bout food not 20 and above. or rather, the first time i've seen him like that in all our food expeditions haha. eric thought it was so so but i really enjoyed mine. the mee hoon kuey was just the right texture. the soup had taste. and don't think have so much msg. wasn't as thirsty as after a qiu lian meal. nice. won't mind going back. but it's way too far. but oh well. we should go there again. i'd queue up for my mee chiang kuey again. this time i won't leave it at kfc.

after that went to mind cafe at boat quay. last week tried to go settler's but was full. this week just went there on a whim. and surprisingly it was quite empty (it seems more expensive than the one at dhoby ghaut though the ambience is nicer). played citadel. we totally loved it man... al the trying to second guess each other. ash trying to stir up stuff and getting all defensive when i jab him at that haha. just can't describe the fun we have... it's such a pity terence isn't. we could so imagine what he'd be doing. at first when the girl was explaining the game i thought it was too complex but it was just right after a while. enough complexity to make everyone think but not so much that it's daunting... a great plus we know each other quite well so will be thinking what they'd be doing... great game...

i can never credit how smashing the day had been. but wow. what a day. 45 bucks. but if 45 bucks is the price for this fun i'd go rob banks every day. but oh well. it's that fun partly because it doesn't happen everyday too... i guess by now eric should be back in indonesia. the parting scene at the mrt was quite funny. ash, lymon and aaron just trudged along down to the north south line area at the mrt. then eric realised he needed to go the other way... haha. quite funny his expression. like wth. said goodbye to him. after parting with him then ash suddenly realised halfway down the stairs. was shouting to him. just some waving and we're on our way. so it'd be one more year before we meet again. but i guess the way we parted is a sign of how things have progressed from three years ago? (wow, it's the third year already). it's the knowledge that we'd meet up again, definitely. someway, somehow. things will change and everything but there's no need to say our goodbyes yet cos we all have that knowledge. here's to the memories...

just checked up on air ticket and hotel prices in australia. ouch. i didn't expect free and easy trips there to be that ex... i wonder if the fuel prices played a part in it... like geog we all learn bout budget airlines. how it's driving air prices down. but ouch. it's not that much cheaper. and everything's just so ex... was looking forward to a trip overseas with friends after ord. and last week the idea of australia. going over to find eric, then he comes to singapore with us just rocked the sock for me. but now looking increasingly unlikely when i saw the price. i guess if i went down to it, be willing to part with the money i can probably go. ash and aaron probably also. but it's a bit too ex. was hoping can find sth cheap maybe lymon can join us. then hope that the one in a gazillion chance will come true and terence can join. but oh well... it'd even reaching the upper limit of my 1500 maximum budget. airfares are too much. a decent hotel instead of motels is a bit too much too. i guess i just can't have comfort and cheap stuff together. see how it goes. will snoop around during travel fare many months down the road. hope it can work out. if not australia at least somewhere else. i so need to leave the country